Author: Ron Rozelle

Here's my most recent commentary in Brazos Monthly magazine, a publication of The Facts newspaper. This one is about our shortest month, which is right around the corner, and the holiday that falls in its middle.    © 2024 Ron Rozelle February looms close on the horizon, that second batter-up in the rotation which is not … Continue reading Carrot Cake, Al Capone and Cupid

Apologies for not updating the What I'm Reading page which I promised to do. I have a couple of excuses that probably won't fly, but here goes. Karen's and my recent move to Overture 55+ in Sugarland was time consuming and I'm currently preparing for my first in-house writing workshop (information below). I'll do better about tending … Continue reading

Story Building: A Three Day Creative Writing Workshop I will be conducting my first in-house writing workshop since the pandemic at the Brazosport Center for the Arts and Sciences in Brazosport on Friday, March 1st through Sunday, March 3rd (9:00 to 3:00 on Friday and Saturday; 2:00 to 5:00 on Sunday). There will be a … Continue reading Upcoming Events

           I apologize for not posting in a while. Karen and I recently moved ourselves and our worldly goods from an apartment in one city to one in another city and things have been a bit hectic. I'll try to do better. Here's my Sunday morning newspaper column from the Brazosport Facts from December 2nd, 2012 ... Do any … Continue reading Historybuffitis

(My January 2024 commentary for Brazos Living Magazine) Sometime in the early 1980s James Michener, the famous author of forty or so novels, most of them as fat as phone books (for those of you who remember phone books), paid a visit to southern Brazoria County.  The purpose of Mr. Michener’s trip, I think I … Continue reading A  Clean, Well-Lighted Place

Commentary by Ron Rozelle From the recent editon of Brazos Monthly Magazine ‘What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows andthe lamp burning bright …’                   - Gustave Flaubert,  Madame Bovar The latest issue or AARP Magazine that landed in our mailbox has … Continue reading Heartlight

Commentary by Ron Rozelle Consider, please, oatmeal.  I’m not taking about those little paper packets that you rip open and dump into hot water and think you’ve got something.  I’m talking about whole grain rolled oats in the same big round cardboard container with the picture of an old Quaker on it that your mother … Continue reading Breakfast of Champions

A story doesn't have to be long to be good. Think of some of the songs (specifically ballads) you've loved that delivered in not too many lyrics a tale that used all or most of the literary elements necessary to tell tales (my unorthodox story definition I call "The Big Sandwich' is under the tab … Continue reading Big isn’t always best

Having enjoyed reading many things in many genres over many years I've recently decided to create a checklist of some of the world's literary classics, and maybe (a very big maybe) actually completing checking them off if given time and continued interest. It's a bucket list, sort of like climbing Mount Everest or parachuting out … Continue reading A big bucket list

(This appeared one Sunday morning in 2006 as one of my weekly newspaper columns. And since this morning fourteen years later we are expecting the arrival of the first arctic front of the year after a broiling surface of the sun summer I thought it might be appropriate to pull it out of the vault … Continue reading The Chilling Confessions of a Weather Junkie